This ...

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... is close to my heart:

Having spent much of his adult life coping with multiple sclerosis and trying various medical options, former talk show host Montel Williams decided an experimental -- and controversial -- treatment was worth the risk: liberation therapy.

"The only way I can figure out whether or not this works is if I do it myself," he said of the June 30 medical procedure, which involved a balloon angioplasty to open three narrowed veins in his neck and chest.

The procedure is called liberation therapy, and it was brought to the worlds' attention by Dr Paolo Zamboni of Italy. Like Montel Williams, most (if not all) of his initial patients showed immediate relief of symptoms.

Unfortunately, the medical community is divided as to the benefit of the therapy. My own neurologist admits that it may be beneficial, but that in this country, it is prohibitively expensive. Fortunately, there are studies being done now to actually find out what's what.

Of course, the free market comes to the rescue sort of - you can get package deals to fly to Romania (or some other such country), have the tests and the angioplasty, and a couple of days recuperation and observation (airfare included) for $5-6,000.

I have been tempted. I'll settle for watching the progress of the studies for now.

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